About a year ago I got a 250 gig hard drive, and decided to use that as my main drive for music. Since then, my music collection has been growing. However, I’ve been running into a pattern that I’m not too fond of. I’m getting hooked on about 5% of my iTunes library: the 5% that is rated or commented and added to a playlist.

I have not been too happy with that, but the alternative, spending a lot of time classifying music and creating playlists, isn’t that attractive. The real problem with it is that you have to do it all the time. That is, a song that today I rate as a 3-star song, tomorrow might, and does, get old. Ideally, I would have to update the ratings, continuously.

Enter Moody.
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In one year Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize, had a bestselling book, and won an Oscar.  What are other historical examples of a person having multiple notable recognitions or achievements within a single year?

Peter responds:

In the past week my son was born, my mother told me she was proud of me, my wife said she loved me, I got an unexpected raise at work and found $20. Al Gore can suck it.

Source:Marginal Revolution.